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the watcher could hear repeated several times in the still 
night, the yelping becoming fainter with the distance. The 
jackals appear to have posted themselves in line, just within 
the cover, and when the deer had filled itself with water, kept 
it in the open, knowing that if they made it exert itself in 
that plethoric condition, it must soon be winded and fall an 
easy victim to them. A native shikari who was present 
declared this to be a common stratagem with jackals, which 
hunted thus in large packs. Division of labour in this 
systematic manner implies as much as could be expected of 
man himself in similar circumstances. 
Some years ago I was acquainted with a colley and a grey- 
hound who used to hunt in concert thus. The hares on 
Dartmoor squat on the tops of the broad stone walls, where 
some short brushwood of coarse grays grows. The colley 
used to hunt along the walls, the greyhound meanwhile 
walking a few yards ahead, attentively watching the move- 
ments of his companion. The instant ‘a. hare was started, the 
greyhound was ready to pounce upon it, and, by some means, 
known only to that sagacious colley, the hare was almost 
always compelled to break on the side where the greyhound 
was in waiting. Before puss had time to recover from her 
surprise at being thus “surrounded,” she was snapped up. 
Just as I was rolling up my blanket, early one morning in 
Queensland, preparatory to lighting the fire to boil my tea, 
I heard the heavy thud of a kangaroo leaping at full speed 
in some distant scrub, and, grasping my gun, I lay flat on the 
earth, hoping for a shot. A few moments later, a dingo 
appeared on the outside of the cover, sneaking along parallel 
to the kangaroo, and pausing occasionally to listen, but, as 
the event showéd, unnoticed by the hunted animal. Never 
before having seen a kangaroo hunt conducted by native 
dogs, I watched it with great interest. Presently, at scarcely 
a hundred yards from me, the kangaroo suddenly broke 
cover, and the outside dingo, for whom he was certainly 
unprepared, ran in to him and had him by the shoulder in 
